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i just had the stupidest idea for impractical footwear, and i'm wondering if anything like that already exists:

the floatshoe

basically, a ring for your calf to sit in, possibly with a sort of funnel or straps to more evenly spread the weight, mounted on struts that connect to a "sole", so that your feet hang in the air freely as you walk

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"Sam Plem"
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I feel like that would probably break the legs. But uh ... that shouldn't keep high fashion from at least trying.
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khm
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chell wears an early version of this in portal

(dt.) Jachthafen = (engl.) DisplayPort

hochqualitative berichterstattung bei der funke mediengruppe

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wayfinder
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sorry, funke medien gruppe - zeit fürs deppenleerzeichen muss sein

trying to keep track of my emerging pet peeves:

- the "you ask" pattern

i've noticed a huge increase in this over the past few years; people in tv shows, on youtube, sometimes in movies, will pronounce questions as if they were going to add "..., you ask?" to them. i hate it

- the "name in commas" pattern

this is becoming an absolute epidemic in social media; here are a few examples:

"Occultist, Aleister Crowley, was an accomplished mountain climber."
"Rheinmetall CEO, Armin Papperger, reports that the company will not only deliver ..."
"Iran sentences renowned director, Mohammad Rasoulof, to 8 years in prison and flogging"

the thing that's perhaps noteworthy about both of these is the vehemence with which they will be defended as supposedly correct. my fear, of course, is that they actually are.

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Kilian Evang
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I wonder what the "you ask" pattern is, exactly. Pitch rising higher at the end than normal question intonation?
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wayfinder
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yeah, basically.

rhetorical questions in particular fall victim to it a lot of the time.

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Kilian Evang
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Interesting, I'd never noticed the "name in commas" pattern. Using the terminology of Schneider and Zeldes (2021), I would describe it as name descriptors (more specifically: embellishments) treated incorrectly as appositives in orthography.

https://aclanthology.org/2021.udw-1.14.pdf

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Das Kasperlenspiel

every time someone posts a link to an article on yahoo, this is the full extent of the preview:

Not even mentioning the two errors in just five words of headline, there's no actual preview of the content of the article...

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Saga Musix
Saga Musix
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Do you consider yourself to be a Yahooist?

when people using the false plural "octopi", do they also do it for other words ending in -us for which -i is not the correct plural form?

i propose to name this field of study "autobi"-ography

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The Birdbassador
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i think the scientists have mostly given up on "octopi" (mostly because "octopodes" is also fake and "octopuses" sounds bad), but there are still folks fighting the good fight against "virii"

why do so many people write "isaac" as "issac"? it's like an epidemic, probably more common as a misspelling than "micheal" at this point. i wonder what the reason behind that is...
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IƧΛΛC
IƧΛΛC
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@VoiceofDuum hahaha! So true! It happens to me so often. I have no idea why, to be honest. Next time someone spells my name that way, I'll ask them 😋
@VoiceofDuum

Kneten auch Sie noch heute ein Dar!
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making salsa, one of the few pleasurable jarring experiences

slightly ticked off again that discord cannot search in threads

please, i beg of you all... no more cat puns with "purr" or "meow"
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wayfinder
wayfinder
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it's really not nice to do the thing in response to a sincere plea to stop
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Anatol
Anatol
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apologies, I honestly thought the "fursona" angle was sufficiently original as opposed to "purrsonally" :f
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charly
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@dngrs
"sorry"... *does it again* 😂
@Anatol
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charly
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@dngrs
with an example that does the exact thing, though.
@Anatol
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Anatol
Anatol
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@oxytocinated this seems to be yet another case of our communication styles matching very poorly
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wayfinder
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please don't clash on my account! charly, thanks for being protective of me, and anatol, thanks for not doubling down! i hope we can all be fine with this, i am!

(engl.) STI = (dt.) Bumsenbrenner

why do we say incel and not F-Zero
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(engl.) shoegaze = (dt.) Bodensee

don't quixote

by age 46 you should have a sizable collection of grammar pet peeves (about 50% of which are indicators of aging out of language as it is in common use, even if that common use is stupid as fuck)
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khm
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is this the thread where I list them out or do I just continue silently judging people
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you can measure how owned someone is with a their-mom-meter

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i've seen that screenshot from the fox news show about libraries* roll through my feed a few times now, and i keep wondering what they thought the comma was for in "drug-infested, sex dens"


*not reproducing it again because meh

i'm guessing the british government could improve their perceived trustworthiness by a measurable amount if they stopped calling everything they do a "scheme"

it just sounds so sinister and implies ulterior motives!

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this eclipse is very confusing, suddenly everyone likes corona

They're doing some lampshading outside my place
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dojoe
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would the real lamp shady please stand up
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it's monday, and I just posted my weekly overview on patreon and ko-fi. time to finally do some #self_promotion again! follow these links please and be part of the avalanche of moneys that will surely happen soon.

https://www.patreon.com/posiputt

https://ko-fi.com/posiputt


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#self_promotion

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I recently uploaded two new tracks to my soundcloud, and I've had multiple spammers/scammers reach out to declare their undying love for the tracks and offer their services listing it on all the marketplaces, etc. It really does feel like there's a normalized base level of this sort of thing almost everywhere on the web, like parasites, bacteria and viruses in the environment, just a constant pressure of hopeful little bloodsuckers. Every place needs some sort of immune system against these omnipresent threats (and usually, this is not something the platform does, so in effect they force their users into a defensive posture by default.) It's pretty dire, in my opinion.

wayfinder

One Pun Man
SoundCloud

(engl.) Rod Turner = (türk.) Döner Kebap

I made music for a second thing! https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96616

Evoke 25 by LJ

demo for Windows, 8th at Revision 2024
pouët.net
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I made music for a thing: https://mfx.drastic.net/view/asura/

Best enjoyed at 1080p with a nice-ish GPU!


Asura

webgl demo 'Asura'
mfx.drastic.net

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getting over it


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Rip whoever died in this rest stop

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saug auch du noch heute fährlich!
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serviceperson hat meine verabschiedung interpretiert wie sie dachte. vielleicht vergessen, dass die erfahrung "recht gehabt aber pech gehabt, lol was willst du machen" war
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ich fand es als kind immer sehr verwirrend, dass "der mensch hat gute nerven" (edit: oder auch "nerven wie stahlseile") das gleiche bedeutet hat wie "der hat keine nerven" (bzw "ein mensch ohne nerven"). aber letztere formulierung habe ich nun schon echt lange nicht mehr gesehen
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dit is berlin! kopflose ratte inner pfütze zwischen den tramschienen. foto erspar ich euch
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Fabian Giesen
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ugh

ich glaub' in new york sagen sie "character!"

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Computerbild 18 1996

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A pair of pigeons has made its home in the tree in our yard, and when one of them woke me at 6:52 am on a Saturday by screaming (technical term) right in front of my balcony door, I decided to do a little 5 minute craft project. Let's see if the pigeons like it.
on a green crafting mat, a sitting, attentive black cat with bright yellow eyes, made from black paper cut to shape and two circles of yellow paper, with pupils drawn in and some highlights and whiskers quickly drawn in white pencil. the tools used for creating it are also visible along the edges of the image frame - cutter, scissors, tape, pens. it's pretty cute!
what it looks like from the outside of my balcony door, taped to the lower edge from the inside, with a bit of my kitchen in the background, hopefully blurry enough to not catch shit for how i need to tidy up a little
a shot of the silhouette from behind, looking out over the yard, which itself is mostly represented by the yellow house on the other side, but a bit of the tree is visible to the left
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Daniel Gibson
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the birds outside my windows don't even mind the real cat sitting on the windowsill and making silly noises
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wayfinder
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as a little update on this, 2 weeks later, it seems to have worked a treat. the pigeons have, probably out of an abundance of caution and alternatives, decided to find a different balcony for early-morning vocalization, and I have not been disturbed in my sleep since.
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Da steckt ja ein Horst im Thorsten?!!!

was hat es eigentlich mit diesem phänomen auf sich, dass deutsche schmunzeltwittergroßaccounts (und jetzt vmtl auch welche auf bluesky) sich mit namen und/oder bild englischsprachiger komiker und sitcomfiguren präsentieren? chevy chase, alf, etc.? das macht soweit ich das weiß anderswo niemand...
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